Objective: Explain the purposes and challenges of Reconstruction with attention to the economic, social, political, and geographic problems facing the South; the effects of emancipation; racial tension; tension between social classes; and disagreement over voting rights.
(Resources included in chronological order.)
Election of 1876 - signals end of Reconstruction -
Reconstruction Era
Objective: Explain the purposes and challenges of Reconstruction with attention to the economic, social, political, and geographic problems facing the South; the effects of emancipation; racial tension; tension between social classes; and disagreement over voting rights.
(Resources included in chronological order.)
Election of 1876 - signals end of Reconstruction -
Lincoln's, Johnson's, and Radical Republicans' Reconstruction Plans -
Three Constitutional Amendments during Reconstruction era -
Example of laws challenging the 13th Amendment -
Example of laws challenging the 14th Amendment -
Example of literacy test challenging the 15th Amendment -
Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case -
Different approaches to achieving equality: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois -